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Lapita Voyage - in polynesischen Booten - nach polynesischer Navigation
Fascination with Polynesia
All local fruits tasted ten times better than the ones you buy on European markets

All local fruits tasted ten times better than the ones you buy on European markets

 

The tiny island of Anutaa South Sea lagoon

 

The tiny island of Anuta and
a South Sea lagoon


A fale (house)the chiefs of Tikopia dancing

 

A fale (house) and the chiefs
of Tikopia dancing


Pupils dressed in tapaTikopian dancers

 

Pupils dressed in tapa
and Tikopian dancers


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The ‘Lapita Voyage’ – in honour of the greatest seafaring people in the history of Man, the Polynesians

2,500 years ago the central Pacific islands were uninhabited.

These central Pacific islands are scattered over 1/3 of our globe’s surface. That is an area larger than the surface of the moon.  

Within a thousand years the Polynesians had settled this vast area of remote islands.

No other ethnic people have ever established settlement over a wider ocean area.

The Polynesian Triangle: Hawaii (north) - Easter Island (east) - New Zealand (west), equivalent in area to London - Calcutta - Dar-es-Salam

 

» What makes the migration of the Polynesians into the Pacific so fascinating?

» Thor Heyerdahl

» The Polynesians came initially from Taiwan

» Lapita sites

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